I am an NRF rated researcher. My primary focus is on fostering research and development of entrepreneurial competencies and behaviours vital for successfully navigating the entrepreneurial pipeline (intentions, start-up, own/manage, grow, and exit), with a special emphasis on students and women entrepreneurship. I use cutting-edge scientific approaches (e.g., phenomenology, experiential learning approach, quasi-experimental methods, 2-wave studies, and dairy studies) to understand the entrepreneurial phenomenon and test the effectiveness of an intervention to ensure that her recommendations (i.e., theory, practical & policy) are evidence-based. My passion lies in creating new knowledge that can help entrepreneurs (especially students and women) to transform their day-to-day practices and behaviours to enable them to act on their ideas, improve performance and foster the growth of their businesses. My work has practical implications for students, women entrepreneurs, and the business community in general.
I won the Teaching and Learning Award in 2018
I won the Best Senior Researcher in 2019 in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences.
I was a 2019 Winner of the Emerald Literati Award for Highly Commended paper published in the African Journal of Economics and Management Studies.
I was the winner of the 2022 Research in Learning and Teaching: Advanced category at the University of the Free State
I was a visiting scholar at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro in 2022
I was best senior researcher in 2023 in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences.
I was the recipient of funding for the Erasmus mobility program at the Fulda University of Applied Sciences in, Germany in January 2023.
I made the list of 28 UFS researchers (being number 9 of the Stanford-Elsevier Ranking of Top 2% Most-cited Researchers in the world ( as of the 4th of October 2023, the latest update). The selection is based on the top 100,000 scientists by c-score, which is widely considered to be one of the best and most comprehensive measures of a researcher’s scientific impact.
EBUS 2714 - Entrepreneurship
ESBM 2724- Small Business Management
EDSI7905- Entrepreneurship and Development
EBMD6800- Research report and Business Statistics
EADM6824- Analytical Decision Making
MAM1612- Entrepreneurship ( business school)